From the Sierra Club - Sign our petition to Massey Energy and tell CEO Don Blankenship that we must end mountaintop removal mining today.
Tell Massey Energy to End Mountaintop Removal Mining
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When I first read this take action notice I thought a lot of good it will do to tell Blankenship anything. He is a ruthless [...]

I had not read these stories from The Wall Street Journal Law Blog until a good friend sent them to me this morning. I had heard quite a bit about Blankenship’s effort to sway the supreme court in a 76.3 million dollar suit against Massey Energy. The links in this post follow the story on [...]

I just received this link to the following story and wanted to share it. This is a very good article apparently written with passion.
Coal mining ravages Appalachia mountains
Prelude -“They’re ripping the tops off mountains in West Virginia coal country to feed our insatiable appetite for power. It’s cheaper that way. And the trees and the [...]

I had the opportunity to visit Kayford Mountain yesterday. Unfortunately it was extremely foggy and the pictures I have only give an indication of the destruction hidden under a blanket of fog.
Although I didn’t get to see the mountaintop removal going on around Larry’s place I did get to listen to him talk to college [...]

Tomorrow’s DEP Oversight Hearing is Cancelled! Committee Chair Senator Jon Hunter had to cancel. We’ll update when it is re-scheduled. Thanks!

They say that “coal keeps the lights on,” but there are other ways to generate energy that are far less destructive like wind and solar which are both on the rise as two of the fastest growing inevestment markets around.
While it’s true that I don’t have the option to select wind-generated power from Appalachian [...]

From OVEC:
If you are a West Virginian, and concerned with our DEP’s handling of mining regulations and lack of enforcement, please go here to sign a petition to hold our state’s DEP accountable. Also, tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 20th, there will be an oversight hearing on the Department of Environmental Protection in the [...]

In 2002 about 40% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions stem from the burning of fossil fuels for the purpose of electricity generation. Coal accounts for 93 percent of the emissions from the electric utility industry. US Emissions Inventory 2004 Executive Summary p. 10 .pdf
Coal emits around 1.7 times as much carbon per unit of energy [...]

Show the Mountains some Love on Valentine’s Day…….

If you live in or near Kentucky, come out to Frankfort in support of the mountains this Thursday for “I Love Mountains Day”. A rally will be held at 11:30 a.m. on the steps of the Capitol building, followed by speakers (including Wendell Berry) and music. [...]

Wandering through the mountains it is hard to tell where you may come across an old family cemetery. Some burial sites are nothing more than stones in a clearing. I started thinking about the atrocity to our ancestors when thinking about Larry Gibson and his family cemetery. Headstones falling over from nearby blasts, ground crumbling [...]